Architectural Work Preview Stella K. Collinsworth
PRO HEALTH CARE|2013/2014 Cannon Design ProHealth Care, Regional Cancer Center Waukesha, WI $65M estimated construction cost January 2015 estimated completion date Pro Health care is a new three-level, 160,000 sf facility to house a regional cancer center, a full array of diagnostics and treatment programs, and multispecialty ambulatory clinics. The building program is organized to capitalize upon the natural features of the 14-acre greenfield site, extending the terrain surrounding an adjacent pond through the site and creating a terraced landscape around which major therapy and public spaces are oriented. Landscape and building are carefully balanced to create a collegial, pedestrian-oriented campus providing a variety of opportunities for both walking and gathering both outside and inside the building. The facility is massed and oriented on the site to optimize daylighting and energy efficiency. Natural light and framed views to the surrounding landscape are thoughtfully deployed to choreograph the patient and staff experience in a way that supports healing and rehabilitation. To promote a convenient, calm, and cohesive campus environment, multiple parking options are provided, and massing is hollowed out at grade on the north and east facades to create two distinct covered arrival zones. The building’s distinct appearance clearly broadcasts the locations of the two major program components - the cancer center and ambulatory clinics - and the common diagnostics and treatment components bridging between them. Responsibilities: • Development of construction documents on Revit including exterior details, plans, schedules, interior casework details and interior elevations • Development of Major Equipment Drawings and Revision drawings during Construction Administration
3D renderings courtesy of Cannon Design
VIRGINIA TREATMENT CENTER FOR CHILDREN|2014 Cannon Design Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Virginia Treatment Center for Children Replacement Facility Richmond, VA $41.2M estimated construction cost August 2016 estimated completion Conceived as a “pavilion in the park,” the Virginia Treatment Center for Children is a calm, healing, and inviting behavioral healthcare facility for children and adolescents, both outpatient and inpatient. Its initial offering of 32 beds will support growth through 2018, and it can be easily expanded to 48 beds to support projected 2024 inpatient volume. Inpatient units are 16 beds each, with flexible spaces capable of accommodating day programs or eight extra beds as needed. The one-story inpatient component meets the two-story outpatient and administrative component at a central “main street” spine that provides access to a variety of services and delivers natural light to interiors throughout the facility. Glass-enclosed courtyards provide nature views to both the “main street” and the inpatient care units. Ground-level elements in the two-story building include patient reception, the outpatient clinic, security, educational rooms, therapy spaces, a recreation gymnasium, and a faith center. Non-patient areas occupy the second floor, including offices for administrative staff, physicians, psychologists, fellows and students; two conference rooms; and a designated research lab suite and administrative office.
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Conceptual design diagrams, programmatic diagrams and building form studies Renderings for client presentations Facade and curtain wall design Exterior elevations and building sections for schematic design set LEED Checklist Interiors Revit 3D modeling
3D rendering courtesy of Cannon Design
RECAPTURING LIVELIHOODS|Master’s Project [Abstract] Sao Paulo’s Downtown has been a setting for significant physical, social and economic transformations the past several decades. The metropolis is constantly sprawling to fulfill the demands of its fast growing population; the result is an inconsistent urban pattern with a decaying core, wealthy suburbs, and remote slums. While informal settlements are developing on the outskirts, the downtown degenerates and loses population. This is a typical scenario in Latin American cities, a consequence of fast and unplanned growth. The core where the initial settlements took place, at one time contained the city’s richest concentrations of cultural facilities and historical structures, but now is a context of misery, violence, and drug abuse. This master’s project is an exploration of how design can be used as a tool to respond to major social issues of distressed urban settings. With a focus on the Sao Paulo downtown district, the research is undertaken in two phases; Urban and Architectural. The initial phase, at neighborhood scale, identifies both physical and social aspects of the area, with a focus on density, identity and livelihoods. A network of coordinated interventions is further developed and aimed at responding to the existing context and social issues. Subsequently, the second phase exemplifies how the interventions would perform as a single architectural entity. At this stage, the social issues are further addressed through programmatic and conceptual design elements for a significant social impact.
Neighborhood scale model illustrating densitry, historic buildings (brown), and sites of intervention (White).
RECAPTURING LIVELIHOODS|Master’s Project “Through quality architecture, a city can generate a culture that permits a harmonious and inclusive urban existence claiming the symbolic value of architecture as a physical expression of new public policies for education and culture” (Echeverri, 2011). After developing a network of interventions that responds to both physical and social aspects of the downtown district, it is essential to determine how the interventions would perform as an architectural entity in order to cause a positive impact in its surroundings. This section addresses how buildings can include both programmatic and aesthetic appeals to transform the distressed area of Sao Sao Paulo dowtown into a more inclusive, accessible, and safe environment.
Design process construct (right). Architetural model images (left). Upper view of architectural mode (bottom).
RECAPTURING LIVELIHOODS|Master’s Project Night images of the Architectural model (Left). Longitudinal section of the Cultural Center (Bottom). Night rendering of the amphitheater (Bottom).
CHICAGO WORLD EXPO TOWER|Summer 2011 This project is a process-based speculative analyzes of form and vertical circulation to the development of a high-rise structure. The use of different media such as maps, images, and constructs were combined to originate an exclusive design that responds to the dense context of Chicago. The program consists of a multi-use tower with focus on pavilions for future world expo.
HIGH LINE MUSEUM OF ART |Spring 2011 This project location (a dense area of Manhattan, New York) has raised several questions/ concerns with regard to the contemporary urban experience in terms of continuity and discontinuity throughout the modalities of urban texture, volumetric definition and visibility, multiple ground uses and approach to other questions related to the idea of the city. This design was developed after an intensive study and analysis of the site next to the High Line was performed. The use of ground is minimal and the spaces are arranged vertically for art exhibits, events and other uses.
Night images of final model (left and bottom). Axonometric illustration of the museum (top).
HIGH LINE MUSEUM OF ART|Spring 2011
Architectural model (left and bottom). Floor plan at the High Line Level (Top).
TAMPA HEIGHTS BOATHOUSE/NATATORIUM|Fall 2010 This design coursework consists of an aquatic center/ boat house to provide a year round family recreation facility for the downtown Tampa and Tampa Heights communities. This intervention design is based at the Hillsborough River and takes into consideration accessibility from the street to the river. The design also focuses in constructing the ground to originate a wide range of swimming pools, gathering, and recreational areas.
Architectural model (Left). Boathouse Night shots (above)
Site plan graphic illustration (left) and model of initial ground operations.
TAMPA HEIGHTS BOATHOUSE/NATATORIUM|Fall 2010
MIDDLETON INN|Fall 2009 This project is an intervention proposal to Middleton Inn, a historical plantation located in Charleston, NC. The historical and natural surroundings of the site play an important role in the development of this project. A deep investigation into its history was performed in order to relate the new buildings to the ruin of a centenary mill house. The program consists of a botanical pavilion, gathering spaces, exhibition areas, study and conference rooms.
Process models (top). Site sketch (left). Architectural model (bottom).
SPACE INTO LIGHT|Fall 2009 This assignment is an exploration of different types of lights including diffused, direct, and reflected used to create a meditation retreat. The study explores how light can be controlled in order to originate dramatic spaces for solitude, anticipation, and meditation. “The room is the beginning of architecture. It is the place of the mind. You in the room with its dimensions, its structure, its light responds to its character, its spiritual aura, recognizing that whatever the human proposes and makes becomes a life. Structure, I believe is the giver of light.� Louis I. Kahn
Architectural model (left). Process sketch (top).